6.50.1. Installation of Man-DB
First apply the following patch to fix problems when viewing some
man pages:
patch -Np1 -i ../man-db-2.5.7-fix_man_assertion-1.patch
Prepare Man-DB for compilation:
./configure --prefix=/usr --libexecdir=/usr/lib \
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/man-db-2.5.7 --sysconfdir=/etc --disable-setuid \
--with-browser=/usr/bin/lynx --with-vgrind=/usr/bin/vgrind \
--with-grap=/usr/bin/grap
The meaning of the configure options:
-
--disable-setuid
-
This disables making the man program setuid to user
man.
-
--with-...
-
These three parameters are used to set some default programs.
lynx is a
text-based web browser (see BLFS for installation
instructions), vgrind converts program
sources to Groff input, and grap is useful for
typesetting graphs in Groff documents. The vgrind and grap programs are not
normally needed for viewing manual pages. They are not part
of LFS or BLFS, but you should be able to install them
yourself after finishing LFS if you wish to do so.
Compile the package:
make
To test the results, issue:
make check
Install the package:
make install
6.50.2. Non-English Manual Pages in LFS
The following table shows the character set that Man-DB assumes
manual pages installed under /usr/share/man/<ll> will be encoded with.
In addition to this, Man-DB correctly determines if manual pages
installed in that directory are UTF-8 encoded.
Table 6.1. Expected character encoding of legacy
8-bit manual pages
|
Language (code)
|
Encoding
|
Language (code)
|
Encoding
|
|
Danish (da)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Croatian (hr)
|
ISO-8859-2
|
|
German (de)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Hungarian (hu)
|
ISO-8859-2
|
|
English (en)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Japanese (ja)
|
EUC-JP
|
|
Spanish (es)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Korean (ko)
|
EUC-KR
|
|
Estonian (et)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Lithuanian (lt)
|
ISO-8859-13
|
|
Finnish (fi)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Latvian (lv)
|
ISO-8859-13
|
|
French (fr)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Macedonian (mk)
|
ISO-8859-5
|
|
Irish (ga)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Polish (pl)
|
ISO-8859-2
|
|
Galician (gl)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Romanian (ro)
|
ISO-8859-2
|
|
Indonesian (id)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Russian (ru)
|
KOI8-R
|
|
Icelandic (is)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Slovak (sk)
|
ISO-8859-2
|
|
Italian (it)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Slovenian (sl)
|
ISO-8859-2
|
|
Norwegian Bokmal (nb)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Serbian Latin (sr@latin)
|
ISO-8859-2
|
|
Dutch (nl)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Serbian (sr)
|
ISO-8859-5
|
|
Norwegian Nynorsk (nn)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Turkish (tr)
|
ISO-8859-9
|
|
Norwegian (no)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Ukrainian (uk)
|
KOI8-U
|
|
Portuguese (pt)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Vietnamese (vi)
|
TCVN5712-1
|
|
Swedish (sv)
|
ISO-8859-1
|
Simplified Chinese (zh_CN)
|
GBK
|
|
Belarusian (be)
|
CP1251
|
Simplified Chinese, Singapore (zh_SG)
|
GBK
|
|
Bulgarian (bg)
|
CP1251
|
Traditional Chinese, Hong Kong (zh_HK)
|
BIG5HKSCS
|
|
Czech (cs)
|
ISO-8859-2
|
Traditional Chinese (zh_TW)
|
BIG5
|
|
Greek (el)
|
ISO-8859-7
|
|
|
![[Note]](../images/note.png)
Note
Manual pages in languages not in the list are not supported.